Thomas D Swinburne (Tom)

CNRS Researcher, CiNAM, Luminy, Marseille
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New approaches in computational metallurgy
Metal alloys are uniquely strong, ductile and recyclable. Predicting how metal components fail remains a grand challenge, limiting performance, reducing lifetime and raising emissions.

Our work pushes the boundaries of multi-scale simulations to study of plasticity, diffusion and thermodynamic stability in metallic materials, drawing on condensed matter physics, thermodynamics, dislocation theory, statistics and machine learning. A particular focus is robust uncertainty quantification in data-driven models spanning many time and length scales. Applications often focus on material challenges faced by nuclear fission and future fusion reactors.

Recent Preprints / Papers (‡ = sole/corres.)
Entropy of dislocation glide (Rodney Group / PAFI) ArXiv 2024
‡Implicit differentiation in MD (Ivan Maliyov) ArXiv 2024 (NPJ 2025) code
‡POPS misspecification uncertainty ArXiv 2024 (ML:S&T 2025) code
MACE foundation model (Csyani Group, Section A.13) ArXiv 2023
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‡Free energies from mean-field bonds (Raynol Dsouza) Phys. Rev. B 2024
‡Coarse-graining & forecasting MD with descriptors Phys. Rev. Lett. 2023
‡Embedded ab initio with QM/ML (Petr Grigorev) Acta Mat. 2023
A15 defects in FCC (Marinica Group / TAMMBER) Nat. Comm. 2023
‡Ill-conditioned Markov chains (Wales Group / PyGT) Proc. Roy. Soc. 2023

Recent & Upcoming Invited Conferences/Seminars
CoMPASs workshop, ICMS, Edinburgh, 11/25
Senior Scholar, IPAM, UCLA, 9/25-12/25
Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Berlin, 04/25
CECAM workshop, Lausanne, 03/25
Keynote, MecaNano symposium, online, 02/25
AppliedML 2025, EPFL, 02/25

Evening Symposium, IPAM Reunion, Lake Arrowhead, 12/24
MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, 12/24
General Physics Seminar, École Polytechnique, 11/24
International Nuclear Engineering Consortium, MIT/Oxford, 11/24
Engineering Seminar, U Oxford, 10/24
Chemistry Seminar, U Cambridge, 10/24
UQ Meeting, Max Planck Magdeburg, 8/24
Hattrick-Simpers Group Seminar, U Toronto, 7/24
CIMTEC Conference, Tuscany, 6/24
Senior Scholar, IMSI, U Chicago, 3/24-6/24 (video)